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Book SynopsisThe present age of omnipresent terrorism is also an era of ever-expanding policing. What is the meaning — and the consequences — of this situation for literature and literary criticism? Policing Literary Theory attempts to answer these questions presenting intriguing and critical analyses of the interplays between police/policing and literature/literary criticism in a variety of linguistic milieus and literary traditions: American, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and others. The volume explores the mechanisms of formulation of knowledge about literature, theory, or culture in general in the post-Foucauldian surveillance society. Topics include North Korean dictatorship, spy narratives, censorship in literature and scholarship, Russian and Soviet authoritarianism, Eastern European cultures during communism, and Kafka’s work. Contributors: Vladimir Biti, Reingard Nethersole, Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, Sowon Park, Marko Juvan, Kyohei Norimatsu, Péter Hajdu, Norio Sakanaka, John Zilcosky, Yvonne Howell, and Takayuki Yokota-Murakami.
Trade Review“Policing Literary Theory is a timely contribution to a field under attack and a university system that is in shambles and it usefully interrogates some of the causes of this situation through the effective metaphor of a crime-scene drama.” - Sean Braune, Brock University, in: Feminisms. Materialists, Transdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches 4.1 (2018) pp. 132-143
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Editors’ Introduction Part 1: Theories of Policing in Literature and Literary Criticism 1 After Theory: Politics against the Police? Vladimir Biti 2 Theory Policing Reading or the Critic as Cop: Revisiting Said’s The World, the Text, and the Critic Reingard Nethersole 3 Le cercle carré: On Spying and Reading Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu Part 2: Case Studies 4 Dear Leader! Big Brother!: On Transparency and Emotional Policing Sowon S. Park 5 The Charisma of Theory Marko Juvan 6 Within or beyond Policing Norms: Yuri Lotman’s Theory of Theatricality Kyohei Norimatsu 7 The Oppressive and the Subversive Sides of Theoretical Discourse Péter Hajdu Part 3: Policing Literary Theory across the World 8 Roman Nikolayevich Kim and the Strange Plots of His Mystery Novellas Norio Sakanaka 9 Kafka, Snowden, and the Surveillance State John Zilcosky 10 The Genetics of Morality: Policing Science in Dudintsev’s White Robes Yvonne Howell 11 In Lieu of a Conclusion: Policing as a Form of Epistemology – Three Narratives of the Japanese Empire Takayuki Yokota-Murakami Index
